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Local names for common wild edible mushrooms growing in Europe, North Africa and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

2015

Mushroom hunters in rural areas call and identify wild edible mushrooms on the basis of their local or common names. Local names of mushrooms are also widely used in folk medicine and particularly in shamanic and religious rituals. Linking of local names with their respective scientific names is of fundamental importance for the exploitation of their market potential and for prevention of poisoning. We present a list of common names given to 45 wild edible mushroom taxa (28 basidiomycetes and 17 ascomycetes) occurring in Austria, the Czech Republic, France, Greece, Italy, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Morocco, Romania, Serbia, and Spain. The selected taxa are Agaricus campestris., A. crocodi…